A California teen is being praised for passing up an easy chance at $1,500 in cash and a run at a handful of credit cards.

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Tyler Opdyke, 18, of Sacramento, was handing out fliers for his uncle's business when he spotted a wallet in the driveway of Melissa Vang's home. Her husband had dropped it on his way to the car.

"With that cash, we were planning to go shopping with it for a feast that we had yesterday,” Vang said. “But I had no clue [he] had dropped his wallet or how much cash he had carried and was stuck in there.”

It didn't take Opdyke long to figure out what he had to do.

“I just really thought about what I would want someone to do if I were to drop my wallet,” Opdyke said. “And then I thought about the house. I thought about the family who lived there."

When the teen knocked on Vang's door, she didn't answer because she has a policy of not answering the door for people she doesn't recognize. But when he walked away, she checked her security camera.

The footage showed Opdyke holding the wallet up to the camera before placing it under the doormat -- without a second thought.

"I went back to go see if the money was still there because if it was, I was going to keep knocking. And that's when Melissa and her two girls came out and we hugged," Opdyke said.